The Treaty of Medicine Lodge is among the last, most famous and most influential of the United States-Native American treaties. The treaty, or rather collective of three treaties signed at Medicine Lodge, Kansas in October of 1867, was a comprehensive peace settlement between the U.S. government and the Plains Nations of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. Major provisions...

The chiefs and headmen of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian tribes met with the United States commissioners, such as Nathaniel G. Taylor and William S. Harney, in Kansas to seal their tribes’ fate in America on October 21, 1867. The United States government referred to the Treaty with the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache as a peace treaty, but in reality it forced the tribes to conform to the...

On October 14, 1867, Saint Augustine's College was founded in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Episcopal clergy, who encouraged and executed the founding of the school, aimed to educate newly freed slaves in the Raleigh-Durham area.<br /><br />Like most schools opened to black students, Saint Augustine's College originally functioned as a secondary school. In 1919, the institution...

The primary source used is a democratic ticket representing the main holder of the second democratic party going up against Abraham Lincoln in 1860. His name was John Breckinridge. This came at a time where the democratic party split. The split came from both democratic runners Breckinridge and Stephen Douglass, the main democratic party holder. Both candidates were for slavery, but Breckinridge...

African Americans never enjoyed exclusive access to law schools, much less to graduate schools in general. At the start of 1869, however, John Mercer Langston and the Trustees of Howard University announced the opening of the very first law school in the United States intended for African Americans and those seeking to provide legal defense for other African Americans. Langston himself was the founding...

One January day, Lieutenant. Rogers of Princess Anne County Sheriff's Department ordered a detachment of twenty men headed by Lieutenant Farragut to serve a warrant to two black men living on the Baxter farm and the one adjacent to it. This detachment was sent because the last deputy that tried to serve was met with resistance. The whole detachment arrived at the farm and proceeded to the house...

Between May 8 and August 17, 1867 the Constitution of Maryland was written in Annapolis, Maryland in order to comply with the changing pace of the nation. Maryland, which had never seceded from the United States, had its civil rights revoked by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. As a result, even though Maryland was not controlled by the mandates of the Reconstruction Acts, the state,...

Dated January 13, 1869, this letter written by ex-Confederate general and former United States Vice-President, John C. Breckinridge, first became public on January 20, 1869, when the newspaper of Columbus, Georgia printed a copy of the message. Four days later, the New York Times made it available to an even wider audience when it republished the article. After the surrender of the Confederacy,...

For the white plantation owners of the South, labor had always been a problem. Cotton-picking was back-breaking work. Always in the past, though, slaves had worked the long hours in the sweltering heat. Slavery ended, but the demand for labor did not. Suddenly the planters had the job of enticing labor that had been so simple, if expensive, to secure just years earlier. They began to question just...

Grant County is formed in Arkansas during this year. Grant County is formed from three other counties and they all still remain counties also. There will be 637 miles that encompass this county. This formation shows the westward movement that is occurring during this stage of the south.<br /><br />Mr. FLB Goodwin is from Georgia and he wrote to the Atlanta constitution during this...